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<https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt/tree/master/test>`_ and is `continuously fuzzed
<https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/list?colspec=ID%20Type%20
Component%20Status%20Proj%20Reported%20Owner%20Summary&q=proj%3Dfmt&can=1>`_
* Safety: the library is fully type safe, errors in format strings can be
* Safety: the library is fully type-safe, errors in format strings can be
reported at compile time, automatic memory management prevents buffer overflow
errors
* Ease of use: small self-contained code base, no external dependencies,
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consistent output across platforms and support for older compilers
* Clean warning-free codebase even on high warning levels such as
``-Wall -Wextra -pedantic``
* Locale-independence by default
* Locale independence by default
* Optional header-only configuration enabled with the ``FMT_HEADER_ONLY`` macro

See the `documentation <https://fmt.dev>`_ for more details.
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from `format-benchmark <https://github.com/fmtlib/format-benchmark>`_
tests compile time and code bloat for nontrivial projects.
It generates 100 translation units and uses ``printf()`` or its alternative
five times in each to simulate a medium sized project. The resulting
five times in each to simulate a medium-sized project. The resulting
executable size and compile time (Apple LLVM version 8.1.0 (clang-802.0.42),
macOS Sierra, best of three) is shown in the following tables.

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size compared to iostreams and comes pretty close to ``printf``. Boost Format
and Folly Format have the largest overheads.

``printf+string`` is the same as ``printf`` but with extra ``<string>``
``printf+string`` is the same as ``printf`` but with an extra ``<string>``
include to measure the overhead of the latter.

**Non-optimized build**
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Folly Format 79.9 445 430
============= =============== ==================== ==================

``libc``, ``lib(std)c++`` and ``libfmt`` are all linked as shared libraries to
``libc``, ``lib(std)c++``, and ``libfmt`` are all linked as shared libraries to
compare formatting function overhead only. Boost Format is a
header-only library so it doesn't provide any linkage options.

Running the tests
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Please refer to `Building the library`__ for the instructions on how to build
Please refer to `Building the library`__ for instructions on how to build
the library and run the unit tests.

__ https://fmt.dev/latest/usage.html#building-the-library
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proxy

* `redpanda <https://vectorized.io/redpanda>`_: a 10x faster Kafka® replacement
for mission critical systems written in C++
for mission-critical systems written in C++

* `rpclib <http://rpclib.net/>`_: a modern C++ msgpack-RPC server and client
library
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Boost Format
~~~~~~~~~~~~

This is a very powerful library which supports both ``printf``-like format
This is a very powerful library that supports both ``printf``-like format
strings and positional arguments. Its main drawback is performance. According to
various benchmarks, it is much slower than other methods considered here. Boost
Format also has excessive build times and severe code bloat issues (see
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FastFormat
~~~~~~~~~~

This is an interesting library which is fast, safe and has positional arguments.
This is an interesting library that is fast, safe, and has positional arguments.
However, it has significant limitations, citing its author:

Three features that have no hope of being accommodated within the
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Boost Spirit.Karma
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This is not really a formatting library but I decided to include it here for
This is not a formatting library but I decided to include it here for
completeness. As iostreams, it suffers from the problem of mixing verbatim text
with arguments. The library is pretty fast, but slower on integer formatting
than ``fmt::format_to`` with format string compilation on Karma's own benchmark,
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The `Format String Syntax <https://fmt.dev/latest/syntax.html>`_
section in the documentation is based on the one from Python `string module
documentation <https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#module-string>`_.
For this reason the documentation is distributed under the Python Software
For this reason, the documentation is distributed under the Python Software
Foundation license available in `doc/python-license.txt
<https://raw.github.com/fmtlib/fmt/master/doc/python-license.txt>`_.
It only applies if you distribute the documentation of {fmt}.
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